away any right which the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of Saint John have or possess by the Charter of the City as by law established. 11. This Act shall continue and be in force until the first day of May which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five. 6th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 35. An Act for the amendment of the Charter of the City of Saint John. WHEREAS sundry improvements are requisite in the Charter of the City of Saint John, and the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the said City, and a large and respectable number of the inhabitants thereof, being freemen and freeholders, have by their petition prayed that such improvements may take place in the said Charter, and that the same may accordingly be amended by Law ; Be it therefore enacted, &c.—1 & 2. Repealed by 16 V. c. 37, s. 1. 3. It shall and may be lawful for the Mayor of the said City, and he is hereby authorized to licence persons, being natural born British subjects, or such as shall become naturalized or be made denizens, to use any art, trade, mystery, or occupation, or carry on any business in merchandise or otherwise, within the said City, on paying yearly such sum, not exceeding five pounds nor less than five shillings, to be fixed and determined by an ordinance of the Corporation, for the use of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the said City of Saint John, together with the fees of office, and be subject also to the payment of all other charges, taxes, rates, or assessments as any freeman or other inhabitant of the said City may by law be liable to or chargeable with. 4. Aliens, the subjects of any other country at peace with Great Britain, may be licenced by the Mayor of the said City, to use any art, trade, mystery, or occupation, or to carry on any business in merchandise or otherwise, within the said City, on paying annually for the use of the Mayor, Almermen, and Commonalty of the said City, a sum not exceeding twenty five pounds nor less than five pounds, together with fees of office, to be regulated by ordinance of the Corporation, and be subject also to the payment of all other charges, taxes, rates, or assessments as any freeman or other inhabitant of the said City may by law be liable to or chargeable with. 5. The Common Council of the said City shall have power and authority, in the event of any one of the Aldermen or Assistant Aldermen of the said City being found guilty of grossly improper conduct at any of the meetings of the said Common Council, (two thirds of the members of the said Council concurring therein,) to expel such member from the said Common Council, and the member so expelled shall thereby forfeit all his right and power as an Alderman or Assistant Alderman for the year for which he may have been elected; and it shall and may be lawful for the Mayor of the said City, and he is hereby required forthwith after such expulsion, to order a new election for the choice of some properly qualified person to serve in the place of the member so expelled. 6. Repealed by 16 V. c. 37, s. 1. 7. The Common Council of the said City shall have full power and authority from time to time to displace the Chamberlain or Treasurer of the said City, appointed under and by virtue of the said Charter, for neglect of duty or other misconduct, (two thirds of the members of the Council concurring in the motion,) and appoint another in his place. 8. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the said City, shall and may have power, by their bye laws, to enforce the payment of penalties thereby imposed by imprisonment of the offenders for a limited period of time, not exceeding forty days, in case no goods or chattels can be found whereon to levy the said penalties; provided always, that such bye laws before being carried into force shall be confirmed by the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief and Executive Council of the Province. 9. Repealed by 16 V. c. 37, s. 1. 10. It shall be the duty of the Common Council of the City to publish in two of the Newspapers published in the City two months before the annual election of Charter officers in each year, for the information of the citizens of Saint John, a full and detailed statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Corporation during the year, and in every such statement the different sources of City revenue and the amount received from each, the several appropriations made by the Common Council, the objects for which the same were made, and the amount of moneys expended under each, the moneys borrowed on the credit of the Corporation, the authority under which each loan was made, and the terms on which the same was obtained, shall be clearly and particularly specified, and such statement and accounts shall be made up to the thirty first day of December preceding such publication in every year. 11. From and after the passing of this Act the Mayor, Common Clerk, Chamberlain, and all the other officers of the Corporation shall be remunerated by fixed salaries, to be settled, adjusted, and determined from time to time by the Common Council of the said City; provided always, that the salary of the Mayor so to be settled shall not be less than four hundred pounds, and the salary of the Clerk not less than [the words here omitted are repealed by 11 V. c. 29, s. 1] which salaries shall be in lieu and substitution of all fees by them receivable under and by virtue of their respective offices. 12. All costs, fees, and emoluments whatever payable to and receivable by the said Mayor, Common Clerk, and Chamberlain, or any other officer of the said City, judicial or ministerial, for any act, matter, or thing done by him or them by virtue of his office in any capacity whatever, shall be paid by such officer on receiving them or entitled thereto to the Chamberlain or Treasurer of the said City for the time being, for the public use of the said City, in such manner and under such rules and regulations for duly accounting therefor as the Common Council shall by bye law, rule, or ordinance from time to time prescribe and determine, and under and subject to such pains and penalties as the Common Council may by bye law, rule, or ordinance from time to time prescribe and determine. 6th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 37. An Act to establish a Register of Freemen of the City of Saint John in lieu of the Register lately destroyed by fire. Section. 1. Register, new, how made. Section. 2. Register, what to be established. Passed 11th April 1843. WHEREAS in consequence of the destruction by fire of the Register of Freemen of the City of Saint John, it is necessary to provide for the establishment of a new Register ; -- Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. It shall and may be lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, and full power and authority is hereby given to them at any Common Council hereafter to be holden, to frame, constitute, ordain, and make all such laws, ordinances, or bye laws as shall and may be necessary to establish and make a new Register of the Freemen of the said City, in lieu and place of the said Register so destroyed. 2. Any Register to be established and made in pursuance of any law, bye law, or ordinance of the said Common Council made and passed under and by virtue of this Act, shall to and for all purposes and intents whatever be and be held and taken to be the Register of Freemen of the said City of Saint John, in lieu and place of the said Register so destroyed. 7th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 22. An Act in addition to an Act intituled an Act to prevent Nuisances within the City of Saint John. WHEREAS buildings have been erected in the City of Saint John, covering the whole ground belonging to the owner thereof, without privies or any means to accommodate the tenants thereof, whereby the streets in front of or near the same have been encumbered with noxious and offensive matter, and the air rendered impure and injurious to health and annoying to passengers: And whereas vacant lots within the said City have frequently been left on the sides of the public streets without fences or any protection against accidents, to the peril of the lives and limbs of the inhabitants ;— Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. If any dwelling house already erected or hereafter to be erected within the City of Saint John, shall be let or leased to any one or more tenants, without a sufficient privy or privies for the size of the building and the number of tenants the same is capable of containing, either in the yard attached to the said building, or in some suitable part or parts of the said building, with good and sufficient drains leading therefrom and falling into the Harbour of Saint John, or other means of keeping the same clean, every person or persons owning or letting such dwelling house not so provided with a privy or privies as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two pounds for each and every tenant of the said building, and the further sum of one pound per week for each and every week the said tenants, or any of them, shall be allowed to remain in such building after the time of their first occupation, or after the notice of the nuisance to such owner or owners, or person letting or leasing the same, to be given by the person or persons hereinafter mentioned, to be recovered on conviction before any two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John, on the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, and levied by warrant of distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender or offenders, and for want thereof, his, her, or their body or bodies to be taken to the common gaol, and there kept for fourteen days, unless sooner discharged by payment of such penalty; and when recovered, to be paid, after deducting the costs of prosecution, into the hands of the Chamberlain of the said City, to be appropriated by the Common Council of the said City in removing nuisances from the streets of the said City, and keeping the same in order. 2. It shall and may be lawful for any Grand Jury of the said City and County of Saint John, or any two members of the Common Council of the said City, or person or persons appointed or directed by the said Common Council, to enter into and upon any building so erected or to be erected in the said City, suspected of not being furnished with such privy or privies, and let as aforesaid, for the purpose of inspecting the same and every part thereof; whose duty it shall be, on finding |